Hancock v. Driscoll is a lawsuit brought by a number of public school students from urban communities of Massachusetts against David Driscoll, the state Commissioner of Education. The suit alleges that the state has failed to adequately fund these urban communities, as it was ordered to do in the 1993 decision in McDuffy v. Secretary of Education, the case that led to the historic 1993 Education Reform Bill that substantially increased state funding to many school districts. Despite the benefits of Education Reform, the plaintiffs in the Hancock case contend it is not enough; that more must be done. The case, which has been going on for seven months, is rapidly coming to a conclusion. Lawyers for both sides submitted their requests for findings to the judge yesterday. She is expected to issue findings of fact by the end of this month which she will then submit to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court which will issue the appropriate orders based on those findings.